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can i vote you for president/queen? also i want this measuring system to be imperative

yeah, it's problem in general with online reviews and vague terms of describing sound i guess, what is "dark" to one might be sth different to another. combined with questionable graph-measuring and interpretation of those and the confusion is perfect all i'm saying is, they're not quite what i expected them to be, and not as much of a step up from the grados as i hoped, plus they have a idiotic, but also expensive monstrosity of a cable. i'll try soldering a new cable and find some velour-cushions then i'll probably be fine EDIT: no extra connectors included with the 400s, probably for pricing reasons... fun fact, that differs on what is your mother-language. i don't know the exact numbers, but for example the sensitivity range for french-speakers is considerably lower than for germans. the octave of english and japanese is the highest iirc (even with a difference between british and american...), this is why masters from some countries have a tendency to sound more in this direction, while others sound more in another. this is also a reason, why there sometimes have been different masters of the same album for different countries.

yay, i'm finally making money, my parents will be so proud at lives we usually ask for 10EUR, but it's basicly pay what you want, so anything is fine i can PM you my bank-details together with a download-link, if you send me your adress i'll mail you a physical copy on monday thanks very much for your interest

okay, already found the plugs, they're mini coax and obtainable on ebay for 10$ the idea of selling the cable was more of a joke obviously. i know nobody would buy this failure, perhaps i'll keep it as a reserve, or just throw it away. as for the graphs sr80 he400 and that huge ditch there is right in the octave (2.5-5khz) where the human ear is most sensitive, because it is the speech recognition range. hence the supposedly "dark" tonality the reviews i was referring to were this one http://www.headfonia.com/mike-and-lieven-on-the-hifiman-he-400/ plus one or two others which i can't quite remember but with a similar conclusion if "it's bass is not like any other headphones bass" means it's just not quite there, then i agree with you. trust me, i know what a flat soundsystem has to sound like and this one isn't really lacking that much, i'm merely saying based on all the ortho-esotherics out there i was expecting something more interesting, the he400 sounds sort of stale in the low range. but again, i might have a more recent revision with a different tonality, maybe it's the combination of my presonus preamp with the heads in question or whatever. i've also found different graphs for the he400s with widely differing results, perhaps the build quality is just all over the place for those.

well, but built for usage with ipod pretty much implies built for portable devices, hence the act of "porting" it around is included in that. outside noise doesn't really bother me, and i couldn't care less if other people hear my music (well, on a train or at work i'd probably turn it off...). this mentioned problem tho isn't only when walking around, it's pretty much every time you move your head or upper body around, and that is bound to happen at home on your desk/couch/whatever aswell, and the type of noise this makes (in german it is "körperschall" don't know a translation for that, think scratching with your fingernails on the back of the heads FAKE-EDIT: apparently its "structure-born sound") is so extremely irritating and loud, as it is pretty much right in front of your ears (as opposed to outside noise, which isn't as loud and plenty far away). point beeing, well there is no point to these cables. why cover them in solid plastic? i don't see the benefit of that, only plenty of deficit. now besides the cable: first a few things that surprised me, but aren't nessesarily bad. First off these are way louder to the outside, than my grado's before that (open aswell) as a matter of fact, they are louder to the outside than they are to the inside. but ok, i wanted open backs, so this was to be expected of sorts, no harm done. secondly, as they are promoted as being specificaly designed to be also used with an ipod (or similar players) i was hoping for at least a tiny amount of headroom but unfortunately to even be able to actually listen to some not that agressively mastered tracks you have to at least be at 90% volume and even gunned it quite often doesn't reach comfortable listening volume (not even touching anything that could be considered "loud") but okay, these are huge magnetic drivers, it does only say "can" be driven by ipod, so i guess i was expecting a bit too much here. third for some reason it is getting very hot pretty quick under those cups (with the leather-cushions, i heard it is better with the velour ones, but i don't have those). this is probably a problem with most over the ear headphones, but i don't recollect having that problem with sennheiser HD600s and/or AT M50s (which are closed) now bear in mind, that my previous main heads were the grado sr80 which is, why i'll mainly compare those two, maybe with occasional reference to senn hd600 and AT M50 as i have access to those at a few places, but don't have them here so can only talk out of what i remember about those. the grado's are known for having a bit of an overaccentuated bass plus a pretty harsh upper midrange/treble with quite a scary boost at around 4-5khz. the HE400s on the other hand are described as a rather dark sounding can with it's most impressive feature being the bass-response and the frequency-graphs i found online would support both of these arguments. in terms of the grados i never found the treble really that harsh but in general i'd sign to what is said. listening to the HE400s on the other hand those are not at all dark, quite the contrary. they can be pretty brutal on your ears when you have a fairly "modern" mix that is probably aimed at laptop-speakers and ipod-plugs. the bass on the other hand although beeing there it didn't really feel as alive and flexible as i was hoping it would be. although this maybe due to beeing de-sensitivised by the grados i'm pretty sure the HD600s were more impressive in that aspect. i have read somewhere, that the HE400s have been revisited a few times already tho, so perhaps my model is a later one than those reviews/graphs? now as i will probably use these heads also for a lot of mixing those points aren't actually that bad, they will perhaps prevent me from doing way too harsh mixes plus not making me too carefull with the low-bass. now on the positive side, besides the somewhat lacking bass i think they sound pretty decent. the added treble, although sometimes harsh, does bring to live some details that otherwise wouldn't be brought upfront this ways and help to sort of distinguish the single parts of a mix better from another. also because the drivers are a bit further away from your ears (or maybe because of esotheric "oooh its magnetics" reasons, idk) the soundstage/stereo-image is a considerable amount wider than before, which again helps to decipher a mix better and to prevent a general sound-soup. bottom line, as i got those for a pretty okayish price i think they are okay, if portability wasn't that important though i would probably prefer the senn HD600s anytime (i'm not entirely sure if thouse would work with one of those portable amps perhaps?) i'm looking into getting some of these plugs and building a usable cable myself, maybe then i'll like them a bit better (i can then sell the original cable which reduces the overall price to about 100 bucks, now that'd be a steal )

some time ago (month or so) i scored a pair of Hifiman HE400s for 210 bucks, which is a fair deal i guess. they do sound pretty okay, but i'm feeling a little underwhelmed i have to admit, plus i can't really confirm some of the attributes they are supposed to have (dark sounding, great bass response)... maybe i'll write a review/impression of them later on if anyone's interested and i'll find the motivation. but a quick tl;dr beforehand: this cable is the most fucking stupid, disgusting and worst thing they could've done to these heads that i can imagine! srsly why bother making headphones portable-compatible, when adding a solid as brick cable that transfers its own sounds like a goddamn sledgehammer right into your ears everytime it moves, which sort of happens when... i don't know... YOU GODDAMN USE THAT SHIT ON THE GO? fun fact, that crappy cable costs a whopping 100 bucks if you buy it alone. good deal

das shit is pretty damn brilliant, thanks!

stoked for that, let's see how that'll turn out, but i think a also always was in the team that liked digimon way more than pokemon (although both were pretty awesome...) also i think it's worth mentioning that so far i'm really pleased with the new black butler season! that circus setting is really great and the latest episode had some really cool visuals too plus i like all the characters and voice actors. much yes to that

wow, this has to be the most gutless sound i've heard from a metal band in a long time. i hope this isn't the final mastering...

opening the state religion of donation-based hide-necromancy with your spiritual master yoshiki. every other sunday: riding a dead horse

[weeaboomode=1] so it's like senpai's senpai? the SUPERSENPAI so to say? [weeboomode=0] hi rocket, nice to see you here, you might've seen me at plug.dj as "bonsaijodel" at some point ^^

regarding BABYMETAL besides the main "something new and fresh" i think this is basicly the point. lots of metal-fans are quite a fan of blasphemy and pretty annoyed by the whole religiousness that surround everything metal, so when something as honest and unapologeticly manufactured as this comes around and prooves that this can be pretty kickass too it is quite a pleasant surprise. all that honesty has quite some charme to it (and it probably helps that i sort of like the music too. wouldn't listen to it too much, but i can see that it really is quite creative and well done...) yes i would perhaps classify as some sort of metalhead, "heavy" music is at least the largest portion of my library.

9/10 kagepro is yes, if only that spoiler-sign would screw up all that glorious symetry

same here, first 3 episodes of SwordArtOnline II were okayish but i genuinely enjoyed ep4 with it's "twist" ^^ Akame ga kill became annoying rather quick though, consider dropping it Tokyo Ghoul on the other hand is now more interesting after a way average and predictable start. apart from that Zankyou no terror is still brilliant, but i think they could finally show the motivation behind the doings and riddles etc. to keep me interested in the plot a bit more, hoping for the next episode for that

this is where i got it from... http://coolrom.com/emulators/ps2/57/PCSX2.php http://coolrom.com/roms/ps2/

i remember there once was one by them here (or maybe back on TW) with some riddicculous name "be defeated by the heavieness of this riff" or sth along those lines. (i might have an album by the other band perhaps^^)

there's also gomnupers (hey, his t-shirt even says "stoner" ) and perhaps knellt but both border pretty deep into metal i guess, and i suspect it's damn hard to find any releases by them

hmmn, i'm a bit torn i have to admit. i'm discussing with my friend if we should either continue the story with x-2 or go on with xii. it obviously has an appeal to complete the story of x, the game we already finished, but x-2 seems to get a lot of shit (at least in western countries, where as in japanese rankings x-2 seems to be miles in front of xii...) any recommendations with that in mind? i might add i'm totally fine with the main-cast beeing all female and singing in a girlgroup, i liked lulu as a character and yuna and rikku were ok too, so no problems there...

it's fine, nobody get's called a hater in honesty here (you did call them lame tho ) let me just ask you this, as you've already stated the music is more or less fine for you (besides vocals, but let's assume they'd be ok too), why would you let some esotheric, semi-religious preconceptions about what is "true" and what is "false" and how some arbitrary label "should" or "shouldn't" be take that away from you? or let it force you to more or less baselessly judge some honest fun of participating musicians, performers and recipients?

*facepalm* yeah the discussion had a few points, but it's like running against a stone wall of unfounded misconceptions which just forces repetition, because a reasonable answers has yet to be given. how would me writing a song/choreo/concept, but not performing it myself lessen my "authenticity"? how does Leonard Bernstein performing a symphony by L.v.Beethoven lessen his "authenticity"? (or beethovens for that matter...) do we all now get our "artist"-cards revoked? what the hell do you mean with authenticity anyways and how is it in any way related to music? where do you get the impression that either the idols or the songwriters/producers are it not? from the very get go they made clear that the songs where written/produced by some full-fledged metal producers (that damn well know their shit) and performed by idols who didn't know anything about metal in the first place but now probably have the time of their lives performing for huge crowds all over the world. going by the definition of Fake = Pretending sth you're not this is pretty much the very opposite of "fake" and in-authentic. fun-fact: a quality indicator for a non-sensical argument is usually the phrase "This is not [genre]" EDIT: and before you'll go with "i clearly stated TO ME" again and the usual "just MY opinion" stuffs, nobody would say anything if you'd just posted "meh i don't like'em, i like sweat, beards and tattooes better", but randomly throwing buzzword accusations (famewhores, sellouts, puppets, businessmen, pop-idiots etc.) revokes your freedom of personal opinion and make it a general case